Education financing is one of the state’s central obligations, as it is stated by international human rights law. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICECSR) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), reiterate the right to free and compulsory primary education, the right to education that is universally available and progressively free at secondary level, the right to lifelong learning from early childhood education through to adulthood, the right to a quality education, and the right to education without discrimination that meets the needs of the most marginalised.